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Innovative research led UC Hastings Professor Osagie K. Obasogie to win the Law and Society Association's inaugural John Hope Franklin prize for outstanding scholarship in 2011 and to write Blinded by Sight: Seeing Race Through the Eyes of the Blind, available from Stanford University Press in November.
Professor Obasogie, who has a PhD in sociology as well as a JD, does research that attempts to bridge the gaps between empirical and doctrinal scholarship on race. In the following interview, he discusses his findings along with some of the broader implications of his cross-disciplinary work.
[Q] What inspired you to pursue this line of research?
[A] It started around 2005, after I saw Ray, a feature film on the life of Ray Charles. Even though Charles became blind very early in life, I was struck by how he had a strong understanding of race—what race is, how it affected his life and other people's lives.
After seeing the movie, I did research to see what was in the published literature about blind people's understanding of race. I assumed that people had already written on this topic, and I wanted to learn more. However, I didn't find anything. I wasn't able to find anyone who had simply asked blind people: What is race? What are your experiences with race? How do you think about race? This oversight reflects the deep assumption we have in society that race is a visual phenomenon that blind people aren't able to understand and that race is not a significant part of their lives.
[Q] Based on your research, how do blind people "see" race?
[A] Just like everybody else. More often than not, blind respondents talked about race in terms of skin color, facial features, and other visual cues—just like sighted people. To be clear, my research focused on people who have been totally blind since birth. These were people who hadn't seen anything, let alone the visual cues that sighted people associate with race.
Some blind people wouldn't date outside their race while others didn't want to live in neighborhoods that were deemed to be different from where a person of their race should live. One blind respondent said "Most black people look pretty much the same;" another said blacks' skin "wasn't as smooth" as whites; others said blacks and Hispanics "had a distinctive odor." Still others recalled how family members acquainted them with racial slurs and to whom, exactly, they apply. But the common theme among the blind respondents is that they understood race visually.
[Q] Don't blind people use nonvisual characteristics as a proxy for what they can't see—like differences in voice and vocal inflection?
[A] Yes and no. The research showed that blind people often distrust these nonvisual cues. A number of blind respondents said they have been wrong enough times by mistakenly relying on voice that they no longer use vocal differences as a key indicator of racial difference. Voice can play a secondary role, but race is primarily understood in terms of visual differences.
Moreover, several respondents said they appreciated my research because they had experiences where sighted people assumed that because they were blind that they were also color-blind—in a sense, that race was not important to them. Some sighted people even thought that blind people were fortunate because they didn't have to deal with the messy world of race.
[Q] Can you delve further into this "messy world of race" and colorblindness—from a legal perspective?
[A] Our courts, particularly the U.S. Supreme Court, are moving toward colorblindness, which is the idea that government should not take race into consideration in any type of decision making—whether it is for benign, beneficial, or harmful purposes. Especially in equal protection jurisprudence, the court is beginning to conflate the government's use of race for remedial purposes—such as affirmative action to make up for past harms that have been perpetuated against a group—with the invidious use of racial categories to subordinate a group.
The basic idea behind colorblindness is that any consideration of race by the government is bad and that we will only have a fair, just, and equitable society once we get beyond race. But for me, the question is, what does it mean to get beyond it? Do we get beyond it by, in a sense, having the court limit the government's ability to use racial categories to address persisting inequalities? Or does government need to acknowledge race to level the playing field? Which still leaves open the question that, given our country's long and pathetic history with race, is getting beyond race even possible? Doing research with blind people about race is a way to take the colorblind metaphor seriously in terms of understanding whether its underlying assumption—that blindness produces a diminished understanding of race and inhibits racial antagonisms—is accurate as an empirical matter.
[Q] And what's your view?
[A] I think colorblindness is a noble idea, but so are unicorns and tooth fairies. The data show that it is simply a misleading and, indeed, harmful way to frame how race plays out in today's society. As evidenced in my book and research, race isn't important just because it's visually obvious, the sum of mere physical traits. Rather, it's important because we're socialized to experience race in a particular way, to give significance to certain cues, to orient our lives around certain features and react to those differences. And this social aspect is so strong that even blind people "see" race. My hope is that these research findings can help inform and change the conversation about race and lead to more thoughtful laws and policies that focus on the social dynamics of racial subordination rather than assuming that racial difference is natural or self-evident.
[Q] How would this play out in the courts?
[A] I hope my work will help give the courts pause before using colorblindness as an interpretive tool. Before we give up on the idea of the government using racial categories to atone for past and ongoing harms done to minorities, we must appreciate the extent to which society is still reproducing racial ideologies and entrenching racial hierarchies in ways that can have harmful effects on these groups. A deeper understanding of these complexities may lead the court to think twice before giving up on affirmative action or other similar initiatives. Otherwise, it is complicit in maintaining inequality.
Put differently, if blind folks are still seeing race and acting on it in a manner that is problematic, you can be sure sighted folks are as well. Race is still a central problem in our society, and we're not going to get beyond it by simply sticking our head in the sand and acting like it no longer exists.
About Science and Race
Osagie K. Obasogie's scholarship also looks at the role of science in constructing racial meanings and explaining racial disparities. His second book is under contract with the University of California Press: Beyond Bioethics: Towards a New Biopolitics (with Marcy Darnovsky).
From "Do Blind People See Race? Social, Legal, and Theoretical Considerations"
"When the assumptions and intuitions that shape legal theory, policy preferences, or judicial review are not empirically accurate, there is a significant disjunction or mismatch between the way law understands how society operates and the way it actually does. This can lead to injustice, particularly for vulnerable communities. Without seriously considering how social practices constitute visual understandings of race, law's emphasis on visual cues can obscure the extent to which people are socialized to think racially, which may very well be at the heart of many discriminatory actions that may go without a remedy due to the current emphasis on what plaintiffs look like."—Osagie K. Obasogie, Law and Society Review, 2010.


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What's worse than having your network decide to burn off unaired episodes on Sundays? Having them stop doing so, because it's going so poorly. That's exactly what is happening with Happy Endings and Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23. Both will continue to air on Tuesdays until their seasons end in March. This comes after the head of ABC called both "watercooler shows." Guys, if you want to save these sitcoms, just start drinking, like, a ton more water at work.


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I have a specific problem when it comes to dating. I mean, I have many problems (I'm attracted to unavailable guys, ranging from gay men to to fictional characters), but there's one that has significantly affected me.
I'm short. I'm 4'11". I've been this size since I was about 12 years old. So, NO, to answer the question you were probably wondering and men on dates have actually asked me, I am not a little person. If you take a look at me –- either by Googling me or assessing my corporeal being -- you can tell that I am of average proportions.
Now, while there are obvious perks to being petite (Saving money by shopping in the children's sections! Wearing high heels guiltlessly! Getting picked up spontaneously! Wearing a hoodie to a Mexican restaurant and getting a kid's burrito!), there are some times where I do get the short end of the stick, pun heavily intended. I don't just mean that I have to weed out all of the shady men who have a petite girl fetish, but something about being a short lady brings out the alpha -- or, unfortunately, misogynistic -- in some men in a variety of ways.
The worst thing a date has asked me was if he would "fit in me." My first reaction to that question was repulsion. That's not how you talk to a woman you barely know! But perhaps he assumed I was, you know, just a girl.
Well, Sir, I am shorter than you, and I may be a few years younger than you, but I have a college degree and I've had my period for nearly a decade and a half. Not to mention, babies are designed to come out of me, and I'm pretty sure a baby is bigger than whatever it is you claim to be packing.
A large part of the problem, I confess, is that on a day-to-day basis I have to deal with the child-izing that men, well, all people, to do me. Yes, I made up that word. Like it?
People like to typecast me as the plucky little girl. When I was pursuing musical theater after I graduated college, this was a great thing. I booked work as a four-year-old-mouse (I'm not kidding you!) in a children's musical. While I am grateful for that experience, there comes a point as a woman where you think, Oh God, do I have to bind my barely-there boobs? Must I maintain a waistline that is nearly non existent? Real women have curves! Even if they don't have height!
Because of my size, I was always the "baby" in social situations, like Nick Carter was the "little brother" in The Backstreet Boys. To refute Mary Kate and Ashley's song from the early 90′s, it was actually me who was the cute one. As a means to combat this typecasting, I started overplaying my womanhood, especially in romantic situations, because after all, women claim their sexuality! Yeah! Girrrl power! However, these misguided attempts were not met with remarkable success.
I can recall being at a party in college for the cast of a show I was in at the time. I was playing –- Surprise! 0– the role of a little girl, and I had a whopping crush on the guy I played opposite. He played an old dude, and we had all of our scenes together. I really wanted him. So I did the thing that college girls drinking beer out of a red Solo cup do: I propositioned him. And this was the worst part: He said no. He virulently turned me down. Why? Because he said he felt uncomfortable that I played the little girl opposite of him in the show.
What kind of man turns down such a blatant proposition?! Yeah, I know … we did have to work together. And who knows, the real reason might have been that he just thought I was unattractive. But I can't help but suspect this was about him perceiving me as a little girl. This was about me being too petite to be sexual. This was about me being cute, not sexy.
And this is at the crux of my ongoing dating problem: Men tend to see me as child, which makes me undatable or unbangable or both. Was this how Baby Spice felt?!? Surely she got laid! Do I have to adopt a British accent or just find guys into that sort of pigtails thing? I don't want to do that!
Now that I'm older, I've "claimed" my womanhood more than I had claimed it back in my collegiate days, I've mustered up enough self esteem to, for the most part, not let my height be my signature personality trait, because after all, my physical traits are not my personality. My work ethic, my ambition, my pratfalls, my confession that one time I accidentally ate bird food, are.
Despite all the issues that come along with my stature, I really like being short. I'm used to it. I don't know what it's like to be tall. The problem isn't completely me -- because there's nothing I can do other than get leg implants, which quite frankly, seems like a crazywaste of time -- it's the men sizing me up (sorry the pun! I can't help myself).
I do, however, believe that I can play a role in how I'm perceived to some extent. The more I take ownership of my petite stature, the less men will make assumptions, or the more quickly I will weed out guys who assume that the size of my body is equivalent to the size of my heart, which, I assure you, is a hell of a lot bigger than 59 inches.
And to reiterate: my body was can squeeze out an entire little human, so don't get so egotistical about your size. Size doesn't matter in this case, Sir.
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Now Media Matters targets Ben Carson
Claims Obama critic is using his race to bolster career
By Garth Kant
Media Matters has posted a "research article" claiming Dr. Benjamin Carson is just "the latest in a long line of black conservatives – from Clarence Thomas to Herman Cain – relentlessly promoted and propped up by right-wing voices in the media."
The article, "Ben Carson's Moment," contains just a few original paragraphs and a slew of links to articles and videos.
Carson, the director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital, struck a chord with many Americans when he delivered a devastating critique of Obamacare at the National Prayer Breakfast earlier this month, with President Obama seated a few feet away.
Though he already was the youngest head of a major division at Johns Hopkins, the first surgeon to successfully separate conjoined twins and the recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, it was the prayer breakfast speech that catapulted him into headlines.
According to the Atlantic, he "voiced concern about the national debt and argued the case for a flat tax, using the Bible's injunction to tithe a set percentage, and for health-savings accounts, a medical option that has gained currency among conservatives. Crucially, he delivered this speech from a podium just feet from President Obama."
Media Matters chose to focus on the surgeon's race.
"After Carson used a speech at the National Prayer Breakfast in front of President Obama to trumpet conservative arguments about economics and health care, News Corp. properties rushed to anoint him as the newest political 'star.' Fox News and Fox Business hosted Carson eight times in the days following his speech, and he has been praised by Fox personalities as a courageous leader who is 'saving America' and by the Wall Street Journal in an editorial headlined, 'Ben Carson For President,'" Media Matters wrote.
See Carson's books, "Gifted Hands," "America the Beautiful," and "Take the Risk" in the WND Superstore now!
The article contains clips of conservatives supportive of Carson. But it begins with a number of quotes questioning why a black would be conservative.
MSNBC commentator Joy Reid said: "Right now, first of all, there is a huge boom in it there is a big career advancement in it. If you want to be Ben Carson, Marco Rubio, any brown or black person who is willing to say conservative stuff, this is your moment. You can make a lot of money, get a lot of attention, get a lot of love from the right, because they really do need brown and black faces to start saying this script.
"But the problem is in order to fit in as a minority conservative, you really almost have to be even further to the right than typical conservatives. You have to mouth verbatim all of the party's beliefs, because if you stray one bit, you are held in suspicion. So Rubio is caught in that matrix."
The Atlantic's David A. Graham also focused on race, writing "it's impossible to pretend there's no racial dimension involved in a successful black conservative castigating the liberal black president."
"Black conservatives remain fascinating to Americans of all political persuasions and ethnicities; look no further than Herman Cain's presidential campaign," he said. "And in the age of Obama – when many on the right feel that any criticism of the president is liable to draw undeserved claims of racism – a champion for the cause who can sidestep that retort is sure to be welcomed."
Tweets posted by Media Matters echo the sentiment.
- "Righties love them some Ben Carson now"
- "Today, if you're a racist, you're almost certainly a Republican. Did you forget all of those "Don't Re-Nig in 2012″ bumper stickers?"
- "But in the end a man known for his medical skills and brought in to speak at a (supposedly) religious event could not resist the spotlight, but had to grasp the opportunity to bash the president. In essence, I believe he sold out his profession and his faith for the chance to become a political "hero". I hope he enjoys it, his 15 minutes are ticking."
- "Apparently in the right-wing parallel dimension, anybody who in any possible way does anything negative towards the president is worthy of a rock star reception. It really is sad that after 8 years of insisting you couldn't question the president, that they've now managed to make 'hating on the president' an industry in and of itself."
President Bush awarded Carson the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2008. He made medical history in 1987 by becoming the first surgeon to successfully separate conjoined twins who had been joined at the back of the head. He's written more than 100 neurosurgical publications, four best-selling books and has 38 honorary doctorate degrees.
The liberal backlash isn't limited to Carson. When Herman Cain joined Fox News, tweets by liberals targeted his race:
- "uncle tom is now a fox news contributer. makes sense. smh. did i say uncle tom? i meant herman coon. oops…cain, herman cain."
- "So the buffoon Herman Cain is over there palling around with the likes of fox news! Birds of a feather! Ole Uncle Tom acting S.O.B."
This is not the first time Media Matters has gone after a prominent black conservative.
It refers to former Congressman Allen West as "widely known for using slanderous, AM radio-style hate rants against Democrats." "CBS ought to know better than to treat reckless name-callers (and freshman Congressmen) like West as a important voices in American politics."
The website wants the media to go after U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. "…the public would be better served if the media reported that one justice on the Supreme Court has repeatedly demonstrated himself to be out of the court's mainstream: Justice Clarence Thomas. Indeed, perhaps the media should be asking how progressive a new nominee has to be in order to counterbalance Thomas."
Economist and columnist Thomas Sowell is accused of "a diatribe laden with falsehoods that mimics the tone most often employed by scores of anti-immigrant nativists, Sowell relies on agitprop from that same lobby to broadcast a flawed economic argument against immigration."
Media Matters posted a clip of commentator Star Parker with the headline "In Kitchen Sink Attack, Star Parker Blames 'Minimum Wage,' Obama's Call For Taxes On Rich, 'Liberals' For Poverty."
A clip of former presidential candidate Herman Cain was titled "Fox News' Herman Cain Belittles 51 Percent Of Americans As Having 'A Severe Ignorance Problem' For Reelecting Obama."
Media Matters calls out former GOP party chief Michael Steele. "If you were a reporter, and you were typing up RNC chairman Michael Steele's call for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's resignation over a racially insensitive remark, would you maybe find room to mention that just a few days ago, Steele used the phrase 'honest injun'"?
And, the website ran a clip of former presidential candidate Alan Keyes titled "Alan Keyes' unhinged rant on Fox News: Obama 'has made himself the focus of evil, the focus of child-killing policy.'"
See Carson's books, "Gifted Hands," "America the Beautiful," and "Take the Risk" in the WND Superstore now!


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Sly Boots wrote:Did anyone else play Expeditions Conquistador a while back? I quite enjoyed it fwiw.
Anyway, they're about to release a viking-themed followup:Expeditions: Viking, a historical strategy-RPG about leading a fledgling clan of Vikings to power and glory, was originally announced in May 2015 as a sequel to Expeditions: Conquistador. Today, nearly two years later, developer Logic Artists announced that it will be turned loose upon the world on April 24.
As the newly-appointed chieftain of a small Norse village, you must consolidate your power base against rival neighbors, establish trade routes and alliances, and send raiding expeditions to the wealthy British Isles. But this is not an eye-in-the-sky strategy game: Your ax will serve you well, but the power of your words will be just as important.
"Expeditions: Viking features a branching dialogue system that allows the game to manage and react to player choices," Expeditions: Viking producer Ali Emek said. "We initially estimated a word count of 200,000, but we've decided to increase it by an additional 80,000 words to provide players with more content and give them more options and choices on how they progress through the story."
Ahead of its release, Expeditions: Viking will be on display at the PC Gamer Weekender, which runs February 18-19 at the Olympia in London. More information about the game is up at expeditionsseries.com.
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SB 315 (Ripley) is a flat-out attack on teacher tenure. It basically guts due process for teachers. MEA-MFT succeeded in tabling it at one point, but it's back.
This is the second time the House has passed consideration on SB 315.
Again this time, passing consideration does NOT mean victory for us.
It may only mean delay. Delay could be for the rest of the week because legislative leaders are working right now to "take a break" until Monday.
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text: Have you ever listened to Scott Aukerman's podcast Comedy Bang Bang? You should because it's the absolute best (unless of course, you hate things that are zany and playful, in which case, move right along) — it's so good in fact that it's been turned into a TV series by IFC. The show doesn't premiere until June 8th, but so far the previews are setting the bar pretty high. First there was Jon Hamm making music with CBB co-host Reggie Watts and now here's a clip of Aukerman sitting down with our collective girlfriend Amy Poehler. Wait, did she do something with her hair?


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Title: "Light Cylinders"
Medium: Integrated Art - Installation w/Multiple Components
Size: 88' x 34' x 34'
Year Installed: 2001
Venue: Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood International Airport
Internationally-known public artist Jody Pinto designed extraordinary environments of light and space for passengers to pass through at the four corners of the seven-story 'Hibiscus' parking garage. The four monumental light cylinders, each measuring 73' height by 33' diameter, functioned to house escalators within, are made of colored fiberglass resin reinforced with stainless steel. Each cylinder glowing with its distinctive hue of either red, yellow, blue or green, serves as way finding device in the vast garage. The colors are carefully chosen to coordinate with the color scheme assigned to each Terminal. At the rooftop, each cylinder is protected by tensile canopy-structure which functions as an "oculus and transmitter of light".
"Four steel-reinforced fiberglass "Light Cylinders", suspended 8 feet above finish grade and measuring 34' diameter x 81' 6"high, pass through all floors of the garage. The Cylinders rise 7 ft. above the garage roof and are capped by tensile structures of architectural fabric reaching an overall height of 96' 6" above the ground.By day the Cylinders are illuminated by sun and lighting, at night they become glowing lanterns. Apertures allow viewing at each level and are aligned to a formal concept reflecting the geometry of the garage building. To achieve greater airflow the cylinders are elevated 8' above ground plane with slotted view openings above each floor. All Cylinders contain primary pedestrian access via escalators to lobby levels one and three, and from level two direct access to the airport terminal via a pedestrian bridge. Access to escalators is adjacent to elevator doors, providing the user with either mode of vertical circulation.The colors of the Light Cylinders are borrowed from the Florida landscape of water, light, vegetation and sea-shell. While providing clues to destination and location within the garage, they greet the traveler with an introduction to the coloration of the environment beyond.The roof design functions as both oculus and transmitter of light. By day the fabric structures allow sunlight to illuminate the Cylinders. At night, the Cylinders exterior lighting causes the individual colors to reflect upon the translucent fabric transforming them into color lanterns above the garage. The Cylinders are solar/lunar lanterns which the traveler enters or peers into. The experience of movement within the Cylinder allows the traveler a moment of calm transition as they become part of the interior spectacle of light."
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Karen Bevis, Ed.D., assistant professor of education and chair of secondary education, Catholic School Educator Preparation Program, and ACTION/Transition to Teach Program, has been appointed to the Starfish Initiative Board. Bevis sits on the Executive Board and chairs the Program Committee.
Starfish Initiative encourages, supports, and prepares promising, underserved youth to reach and complete their post-secondary goals with Indianapolis' future workforce in mind.
"My vision includes showing all students, early in their educational careers, that a college education is an option and a successful career of their choice is attainable," Bevis said. "I am an educator who believes that every child deserves the best educational opportunities regardless of socio-economic status and regardless of where they attend school," she continued.
The mentors that have chosen to volunteer in the Starfish Initiative believe that students can succeed after high school. Starfish Initiative provides important support and resources to students who have little or no knowledge of the college preparation process and lends a helping hand to students and families in the college conversation.
Since 2003, more than 600 promising, low-income youth have been helped, most of whom our first generation college students. 100 new students will join this summer.
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Starfish Initiative is a college access and readiness program serving economically disadvantaged high school students in Marion County, Indiana.
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One of the great things about living in Albuquerque is that I have this newfound sense of adventure. Mind you, I usually have more of a self-conscious apprehension of doing anything out of the ordinary. It's borderline obsessive to think about how much I hate to stray from the formula (whatever the formula may be). A mundane example would be how much it bothers me when something interrupts my morning routine i.e. Having to stop for gas on the way to work because I didn't do it the night before. The thought before the action drives me crazy.
Having said that … being in Albuquerque has awakened something. Not sure what it is, but I find myself saying "yes" to more things, and not in a contrived, Jim Carrey movie-inspired way. It's more that I've learned to let go and just say "to hell with it." Maybe the Burque mentality is rubbing off. Not sure. But in terms of new experiences, here are a few snippets:
I ate at Tucano's Brazilian Grill (which was outrageously delicious). I wish I had more details beyond that, but considering I had a death cold and was forced to sit upright and place pieces of delicious food in my mouth, the meal itself was a magnificent feat.
I went to Knockouts. This undocumented foray into a strip club was my first. Sure, I had offers way back when, but to a warm-blooded, homosexual man, seeing women do the tootsie to Kelis wasn't exactly on my list of things to do before I meet my maker. But, a "straight" friend said I was his boyfriend to get me in the club for free. Needless to say, I had drinks with neon ice cubes (weird!), gave some $1 bills to a woman in a fishnet tutu (do those really exist?) and laughed harder than I can ever recall.
And lastly, I shaved my head and took my first bathroom picture to prove it. This may not seem like such a big deal, but I haven't had a shaved head since I was in seventh grade, and I think it mostly had to do with people constantly telling me I had beautiful hair and should let it grow. So I did. Maybe it was the mountain air, the high altitudes, or just something I ate, but out came the clippers and off went the hair. I can't say I like it, but it is an interesting change. As for documenting it, I rarely stand in bathrooms long enough to pull out my phone and take a snapshot, but I think it was warranted.
Until next week, Burque.


text: The Tampa Bay Rays have sold out their season opener Tuesday against the Baltimore Orioles at Tropicana Field, the eighth consecutive time the team has started the season at home with a sellout.Game time is 3:10 p.m.  Twenty-one-year-old saxophonist BK Jackson of Florida A&M will perform the national anthem. Jackson has had the honors at Rays home openers in 2009, 2011 and 2012.Don Zimmer, starting his 65th season of professional baseball, is scheduled to throw out the first pitch. Zimmer has worn the uniform of 14 teams, and signed with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1949 and broke into the major leagues as an infielder in 1954.Cy Young winner David Price is scheduled to be the starter for the Rays, who finished in third place last year in the American League East with a 90-72 record.Fans will welcome the team back with a pre-game street party from noon to 3 p.m. in front of Ferg's Sports Bar and Grill, 1320 Central Ave.The festivities include live country and top 40 music, giveaways, kids' games, stadium fare, and beer and sports merchandise for sale, along with appearances by Mayor Bill Foster, Miss St. Petersburg and other local personalities.PARKINGTropicana Field: $15 to $30 per car, depending on the lot. The first 100 cars with four or more passengers park free until an hour before game time in Lots 2, 6, 7, 8 and 9.Nearby lots: There are more than 70 private parking lots, licensed by the city, within a half-mile radius of the stadium. These lots are designated by an event parking sign with the letter "P" and a lot number and are staffed by a uniformed attendant.Downtown: The SouthCore garage is at 100 First Ave. S., and the MidCore/BayWalk garage is accessible from Second Street North, between First and Second avenues North. You can walk to the stadium or take a free shuttle.Shuttles: On opening day, free shuttles will start running at 1:10 p.m. and stop an hour after the game. The shuttles run once about every 10 or 15 minutes.Shuttle stops are on Second Street, between Central Avenue and First Avenue South, and outside Tropicana Field on 16th Street, just south of Third Avenue South. Shuttles with disability accommodations, including vehicles with wheelchair lifts, will be available at every game.For the rest of the season, the shuttles will start 90 minutes before the game and end an hour after the game or postgame concert.


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Produce greater power by training the muscles to contract more quickly and forcefully from an actively pre-stretched position.
One of the most important functions of muscles and tendons in running is to store energy. Like a pogo stick, your body can store energy from impact and then release it to propel your body forward. As such, a large portion of your propulsive energy actually comes from the energy stored in your legs from impact previously made with the ground. This is why you can leap higher and longer if you do a "countermovement" before jumping, like swiftly bending your knees, which allows you to reach much higher into the air than slowly bending your knees.
While this "stretch-shortening cycle" has been known about for some time, standardized methods of training this reflex are fairly new. Improvements in your muscles' ability to elastically store energy have obvious implications for runners, as more stored energy means you can maintain a given pace using less overall energy. In short, your efficiency would improve.
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Plyometrics are exercises that aim to develop strength and speed by conditioning the neuromuscular and elastic characteristics of the muscle. The main objective of plyometric training for runners is to produce greater power by training the muscles to contract more quickly and forcefully from an actively pre-stretched position.
Over the following pages, we'll take a look at the research backing the benefits of plyometrics for runners and then explain how to effectively incorporate these exercises into your training program.


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Today was the qualifier and semifinals in the DC humid heat. Bobby Worrest put it down for his city ripping the park all day with the crowd chanting his name. The biggest surprise was Heath Kirchart entering in the wildcard position. He was riding a Baker board, but turned out it was just Andrew Reynolds' back up set up. He broke it on a first try back lip on the big rail and that was it. Comeback? We'll see. The Boss himself qualified first. Check all the other ripping in the slideshow. Results below. Tomorrow's head-to-head brackets are here. Enter SPoT's betting pool here.
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Sprint continues to expand their 4G WiMAX coverage and just announced that three new markets have come online. Customers in Richmond, Va., Salt Lake City and St. Louis can all take advantage of the faster network and 4G handsets like the HTC EVO 4G and the upcoming Samsung Epic 4G.
The 4G WiMax network now covers over 40 million people in 36 markets and is set to cover 120 million by year's end. New markets coming soon include Boston, Cleavland, Los Angeles, Miami, San Francisco and many more. To check 4G in coverage in your area, please visit sprint.com/4g.
Keep in mind that 4G speeds will vary based on a number of factors. Sprint claims their 4G WiMAX is 10x faster (3-6 Mbps downloads) than current 3G networks, but we have been unable to achieve those types of speeds in our testing across Texas cities. The good thing is you can give it a test drive by taking advantage of the Sprint Free Guarantee. This promotion allows customers to try 4G for 30 days and if they are not satisfied, they can cancel service and have the opportunity to be fully reimbursed.
If you opt for a 4G handset from Sprint, you will also be paying the mandatory $10 Premium Data Add-on. You can think of the charge as the "price for paying for a first-class seat on an airplane" and the benefits include unlimited data over Sprint's 3G and 4G networks.


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Reviewed By Jeffrey M (Fort Pierce, FL) Reviewed for a 2000 Ford Explorer —4/17/2016 6:37 AM
These are great. They make my 2000 Explorer look like a new vehicle. I also replaced the old bulbs with LEDs (bright white running lights that alternate with yellow turn signals)-and HID headlamps - killer!


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Sea Life Cabinet Knobs and Handles are designed and sculpted by marine artist, Peter Costello. Most of Peter's life has revolved around the ocean where he has observed and studied the amazing and fascinating creations in the sea. Bold and clean best describe the artistic style of Peter's Nautical and Coastal-style Cabinet Hardware. Each piece is cast in fine pewter, hand polished, and available in numerous finishes. Sea Life Cabinet Knobs make up the largest collection of fine, artist-designed Nautical Cabinet Hardware.
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This is a great and funny shirt. Totally N41.
Am I a pervert, or am I seeing a lot of phallic references in the signs?
Maus24 wrote:Am I a pervert, or am I seeing a lot of phallic references in the signs?
There are a lot of phallic symbols. But you're still a pervert.
JadenKale wrote:I hope you tacked on the $5 shipping... otherwise you won't have it for nearly 2 wks.
Yes, I definitely did.
cabbit56 wrote:oooooh constellations! glow in the dark is a plus~ but I don't get the Sagittarius one, would someone tell me what the joke is?
It's a sequel, and the second part is the tag line. think cheesy action movie. thats my take on it.
If I were more science-y I would be in for 1. But I just like to pretend.
Oh, and I also imagine the designer thinking, "How can I put a one-eyed-snake on a woot shirt without actually putting a one-eyed-snake on it?"
Edit: *Oi! Mosh good! no woot filter for that word?!?!?!?*
Edit #2: I made my own filter. Just so I don't make the Woot Gods angry
Is anyone having any problems purchasing this shirt with a credit card?
EDIT: Just kidding...I don't know why it didn't let me purchase for like 10 minutes though...Was woot telling me I've spent too much!?! lol
I really want to purchase one of these for my old astronomy teacher because he always thought constellations were a joke but it would be weird seeing as I only knew him for one semester... I knew I should have taken that class a second time...
Also, I'm a virgo, in for 1
kcmark wrote:Call me stupid. But can someone clue me in on the subtle joke with the gemini and virgo shapes across the top. I'm not seeing the joke for those constellations but then again I haven't slept in a fortnight.
The "Gemini" outline is vaguely like the side-on view of the Gemini (2 man) space capsule. Y'know, the one after Mercury but before Apollo?
Great "A Wrinkle in Time" reference!
im thinking of getting this just cuz im a Sagittarius :D
Cramps ? I thought this was Astronomy Domine .
What do you call a guy who puts far too much extra-hot horseradish on his sandwich?
Someone who sees lots of stars but none of them are in the sky. They all seem to be glowing, though...
Neat idea, but I'd only buy it if it only had real constellations...
RIP Lux Interior.
Long live lux exterior nocturnum on shirt'm!
Anyone who has owned a Woot glow in the dark shirt please answer. Does the glow in the dark ink last through washes?
In for one - definitely only buying because it has fake constellations. A shirt of real constellations would ruin it for me. I'm a Virgo AND an astronomy buff.
The shirt's a little busy, but I don't wear t-shirts as part of my regular wardrobe anyway, so it's OK to get some cheesy guppy to wear around the house and on walks with the dog.
A timely reference (about a month late) to the Cramps today.
Lux Interior, in memoriam.
fatdogreggie1 wrote:Typical Utah. The universe always revolves around them. Or at least they think it does. At least it glows in the dark. Is this the first shirt offered that uses the glow in the dark ink??
I don't think most people in Utah believe in the Universe. Or at least in the fact that it's old. West Coasters for the win.
I'm in for one.
dieburnbot wrote:Anyone who has owned a Woot glow in the dark shirt please answer. Does the glow in the dark ink last through washes?
Washes? What is this word you use? Did you mean woot-offs? Yes, it lasts through woot-offs!
It's so beautiful haha Though, not sure I want one
bouncy bouncy
Wooow, glow in the dark, eh?... I'm in for one...
In for two, and just in time, the buy button started to bounce while I was looking at it.
So if I'm the last person to buy it before it sells out, do I get a Dead Bird shirt?
Awesome shirt, first daily I ever bought. Woohoo!
Totally in for one for my daughter, Lyra.
The Pterodactyl in the title just automatically made me think of the woot filter... which sort of changes the meaning in an unpleasant way.
Nevertheless, nice shirt ^_^
In for 1 cause it's glow in the dark and it started bouncing!
Kaliam wrote:I'd buy one if I could actually see myself wearing it
Well that's easy...just wear this shirt, and then look into a mirror... Problem solved!
Congrats on the Sellout! Doesn't happen very often as a daily.
I'll also add it's very refreshing to see woot selling Daily's with good quality. I think today's shirt, Robbie's Cuckoo, and even yesterday's shirt are a positive step in that direction.
AdderXYU wrote:I usually rather dislike this kind of shirt, but the humor is pretty solid here. Again, not a buy, but this week is shaping up to be a great one for possible randoms.
This might have been even better with fewer real constellations, I think.
Those 'real' constellations are quite phallic.
Phallic is funny.
Sold out! Congrats! Got one just in time...
Congrats on the sellout! Nice design.
congratulations on the sell out my fellow Bostonian! If you happen to see me wearing your shirt, give me a wave.
Hrmm, slept in a bit too much to get this one. I guess I could just view the extra $5 as a new sleeping tax to help stimulate the economy.
Gaddfly wrote:So if I'm the last person to buy it before it sells out, do I get a Dead Bird shirt?
uh, wrong site...
It had to be done, this was all I could think of when I saw the shirt. :P
Well, blast. Now I wish I'd been able to stay awake just five minutes longer to see what today's shirt was going to be.
Now that it's sold out, I can't be the envy of the astronomy club.
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While creating my mom's new website a video DVD with a self-printed paper cover got stuck in my MacBooks internal drive.
When pressing the eject button (usually mapped on the
F12 key), the disc is moved a tiny bit and pulled back inside immediately afterwards. You can probably see only a very tiny bit if it, but that part can't be caught by regular tweezers or other tools available in a typical household.
I also unsuccessfully tried some tips for removing a stuck DVD floating around the web.
The solution is quite simple:
Try to use the shutter of an old 3,5" floppy disc and bend both ends of the shutter slightly outwards, so that the disc can easily slip between.
Now you have a tool that is thin enough to go a bit deeper into you Mac's slot-in drive. Press the eject button and try to catch a tiny part of the disc with your newly build tool. You should have a fairly good grip on the disc and you can start to pull it out – slowly!
It worked and my MacBook's drive hasn't taken any damage.
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(1920-01-02 - 1992-04-06) was a Russian-born American author and biochemist. Regarded the father of robotic Science Fiction, and one of the best Hard Science Fiction writers ever.
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The European Union (EU) has undoubtedly been one of the global leaders in spurring the advanced development and deployment of renewable energies worldwide. The vision set forth by the Renewable Energy Directive 2009/28/EC – a directive setting continent-wide targets for all EU-27 member states to increase their share of renewable energy in the national energy mix – continues to stand out as the primary example of a coordinated effort to lead a large-scale energy transformation. While renewable energy targets now exist in 118 countries worldwide, few regional commitments to renewable energy deployment exist, though this trend is beginning to change.
In recent years, certain EU member states have gone beyond what is required under the Directive to set even more ambitious national goals. Denmark, for instance, is now targeting 100 percent renewable energy across their entire energy supply by 2050. These efforts should be applauded and their lessons replicated around the world. However, these successes should not obscure the very serious gap that is emerging between current policies and mechanisms and the significant challenges still facing the European renewable energy sector.
EU 2020 Energy Targets
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20% RE share by 2020
10% biofuels by 2020
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20% improvement by 2020
A recent European Commission report has outlined the challenging road ahead for member states as they continue down the path towards their 2020 commitments. The Commission's report sends a mixed message. On one hand, all but 2 countries – Latvia and Malta – met their first interim final energy targets defined under the Directive. In fact, 13 countries even outperformed the target by over 2 percent.
Unfortunately, while promising, the current rate of deployment seen to date is not sufficient to meet the 2020 goals. The EU targets as currently designed call for a strong uptick in deployment rates through the end of the decade.
As a result, a number of EU countries appear to be at risk of falling behind the goals set in their National Renewable Energy Action Plans (NREAPs). As written, the plans call for an EU-27 wide renewable share of 33.9 percent in electricity, 21.4 percent in heating and cooling, and 11.7 percent in transportation by 2020, culminating in an overall 20.7 percent share of renewable energy in Europe.
While system-wide renewable energy developments were still on track to achieve short-term goals identified under the 2009 Renewables Directive, many countries are falling behind their own indicative sectoral targets set independently of the Directive in a number of key sectors. This hints at significant challenges facing the overall renewable energy sector and underscores the Commission's assessment that the 2020 goals are at serious risk. Fifteen Member States missed their indicative targets for electricity from renewable sources while 22 Member States missed their transportation targets. The future of the biofuels target itself is currently up for significant debate as many seek to limit the volume of first generation biofuels produced in Europe. Though no targets exist for heating and cooling, analysis of the sector suggests that the renewable share may, in fact, decline rather than increase over the near term. The Commission's technology deployment projections also point to expected underperformance. The onshore and offshore wind, biomass, solar photovoltaic, and biofuels sectors may all fall short of the national goals set for 2020. The Commission warns that even the currently over-performing solar PV sector is at risk of falling behind by 2020 due to an unstable investment climate created by recent policy uncertainty.
It is important to note that because of the long investment lead time, estimated at eight to ten years, a weak investment climate today will impact production well into the future. From development through installation, a typical offshore wind project currently sees a project lead time of 6.5-9.5 years, highlighting the urgency of quickly establishing an enabling framework to allow additional new capacity to be operational by 2020. Overall, many of the observed shortfalls in the sector can be linked to a number of barriers to renewable energies that have proven more difficult than expected to remove.
Administrative challenges and a slow uptake in infrastructure developments pose a significant constraint to project developers, further slowing and discouraging the investment necessary to meet the 2020 goals. The lack of grid and storage developments must be addressed as greater shares of renewables are integrated into these networks. Of great concern is the admission that current policies and support schemes do not appear sufficient to meet national targets.
This comes at a challenging time for policy makers. While the Commissions' recommendations suggest that additional policy support is needed in many EU countries, the opposite is quite often coming true in practice. Due to a number of factors, policy reductions are hitting the European renewable energy sector. Over the past few years a number of support schemes have been weakened across the continent, including particularly damaging retroactive cuts to feed-in tariffs in Greece and Spain. Another troubling development has seen taxes or grid access fees on renewable power recently introduced in Belgium, Bulgaria, Greece, and Spain.
This policy uncertainty caused by these retroactive changes and unplanned reductions coupled with the low price of credits under the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) has proven challenging to renewable energy developers and investors. It appears the combination of these factors is not sending the necessary market signals to fully encourage clean energy development. Though new capacity additions remained strong, total investments on the continent dropped by over US $30 billion to US $75.8 billion in 2012 as traditionally strong players such as Germany, Spain, and the United Kingdom all saw investments decline. Bloomberg New Energy Finance has estimated that a cumulative US $400 billion will be necessary to meet the 2020 goals.
Though not intrinsically linked with declining renewable energy investments, many of these same countries are witnessing other troubling trends as well. While Europe as a whole saw an increase of 0.6 percent in the renewable share of electricity consumption, 12 member states saw their domestic share decline between 2010 and 2011, mainly due to significant hydropower reductions. The continent as a whole witnessed a "marked increase" in coal generation, with significant growth of 8 percent in Germany, 65 percent in Spain, and 35 percent in the United Kingdom. For the 2020 targets to be met, both of these trends must be reversed.
This is not a time for defeatism but rather a time for reflection and reform. Great potential still exists and the EU 2020 targets are still within reach if the appropriate measures are adopted. European policy makers should take this opportunity to reaffirm their commitments to the development and deployment of renewable energy technologies by enacting well designed renewable energy support mechanisms to overcome the unique barriers in Europe.


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Tim "Whitey" Richards, age 63, of Gosport, passed away at 6:50 p.m., Tuesday, November 19, 2013 at the IU Health Hospital in Bloomington. He was born March 21, 1950 to Jane (Shonk) and Donnie Ray Richards in Greene County. He graduated from Linton High School in 1968. He attended ISU for three years. For the past 20 years he was the General Partner of Rolling Meadows Golf Course, Spencer. He was a wonderful, caring and loving husband.
He was preceded in death by his mother.
Survivors include his wife of 37 years, Vicki (Peterson) Richards; brother-in-law and sister-in-law, Fred and Velma Peterson of Shelburn, Indiana; nephew, Mark and Jill Peterson and great niece and nephew, Ashlan and Mitchell Peterson of Shelburn; cousins, DEDRA and Gerald Carr and family of Linton, Debra Riggins and family of Odon; the family of Dan Thomas of Bicknell and his father, Ray Richards of Spencer.
Visitation will be Friday, November 22, 2013 from 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at West & Parrish &Pedigo Funeral Home in Spencer. The graveside service will be at West Lawn Cemetery in Farmersburg at 1:00 p.m., Saturday, November 23, 2013. Pastor James R. "Dick" Smith, Tim's cousin, will officiate.
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The best blog which I liked is the " 17 digital marketing and trends for 2013". Mainly liked the point of content marketing in the blog.
Well done to the authors, and thank you Econsultancy for maintaining such an excellent, informative and varied blog. Oh, and Merry Christmas!
Nice list of top posts and a good case study for list based blog posts! I particularly like the website design examples for a quick bit of design and CRO inspiration and marketing case studies for helping me make the most out of social media or email marketing for example.
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in StarCraft 2 are the fastest paced and most position intensive of all of the strategies. With all of the Zergs movement capabilities, creep advantages and aggressive need for expansion and map control the Zerg strategies involve a lot of planning for the future and insight into what your opponent is teching to. Zergs abilit to heal over time and mass troops faster than any other race are just a few of the advantages to Zerg. Whether you like Zerglings, Mutalisks, Hydralisks, or any other Zerg unit, these strategies will help you gain the advantage on your opponent and dominate in StarCraft 2.Starcraft 2 Zerg Strategy
-Zerg have the least defensive capabilities of the races making them vulnerable to many early aggression tactics and forcing Zerg to spend a good portion of their resources on their army rather than teching.
- Most Zerg builds require you to have more bases than your opponent not only so you can spawn more larva but also so you can afford some of the higher cost units like Mutalisk.
- Zerg have the fewest specialized damage units (i.e. + vs armored) making some of their counters less effective than the Terran or Protoss equivalents.
- Zerg are extremely vulnerable to Banshee or Void Ray rushes due to the fact you can likely only field a queen by the time they can have an air unit in your base. This makes scouting very important so you can get a second queen or a spore crawler to defend yourself.
- Zergs in Both Starcrafts need to have very good strategic position to gain an advantage on the opponent.
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-Hydralisks have been moved to tier 2 and had their cost increased including their supply cost being raised to 2. Ths denies the mass hydralisk strategy that Starcraft Brood Wars players always do.
- Roaches, an armored tank unit, have been added. They have a 3 range attack (Compared to 5 for a marine) and 1 base armor. This makes them good against Zealots, marines, or zerglings in the early game.
- Zerglings can now morph in to Banelings. Banelings have an acid-filled sack on their back that causes them to explode whenever they come in to contact with an enemy. They do massive damage against light units and structures, so a handful of well placed Banelings can annihilate a Terran wall and the units behind it.
- Defilers replaced with Infestors. Infesters have the ability to spawn Infested Terran which deal a small amount of ranged damage and absorb fire. They can also mind control units temporarily and have an AoE snare effect that also causes roughly 35 damage.
- Mutalisk no longer evolve.
- Corruptors replaced Devourers and fulfill the same role. Corruptors evolve in to Broodlords which fulfill the same role as the Guardian.
- Creep Colonies are no longer required to spread creep. It is now spread by Creep Tumors which are spawned by a queen.
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Another pretty good episode, seems the series is back on track. Lots of things happening but it didn't feel rushed.
Tokisada...maybe this is not the last we've seen of him. He was about to explain his "sacrifice" to Haruto and Ryuhou ("this was the only way. if i failed..."), but seemed disturbed by something, and then he said "forget it, this has nothing to do with you".
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I was wondering the same thing about the Aquarius cloth. I guess the curse didn't work where they were.
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Its like saying "he is the strongest among the pawns".
Anyone else noticed that statue from the anime which featured "Athena giving Excalibur to the most loyal saint" behind Ionia???
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Just a list of every Gold Saints from all the series till now.
|2013-01-21, 15:36
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I like how they only show Paradox's boobs instead.
EDIT: there's something I don't understand. Mycene says that the Pisces saint had never showed itself until now, so much that all other Gold saints believed that there wasn't even a Pisces Saint. Now, if the only one whose identity unknown was Amor, then who were the Aquarius and Scorpio saints? It doesn't make any sense to me because if Mars wanted to gather all Gold Saints, why would he do it if there were 3 of them missing?
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(I have this feeling that the maker of that list really hates Omega. Just look at those ridiculous shots s/he took to represent some characters )
Oh anyway, the list kinda forgot Leo Ilias, Cancer Sage, and Pisces Lugonis .
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I think Omega tried to focus more on character development, something around the lines of Lost Canvas (LC, IMHO, has a well written story with characters with a more proper depth and backstory than SS) Don't get me wrong, No one of the adaptations is perfect, they all have their flaws (as well the source) and even if it has depth and a well written story, it doesn't mean it will appeal to people...
I'll simply say that Omega is just an attempt to make Saint Seiya to appeal to a new audience on an era where ninjas a pirates are popular so, is only natural that Omega will differ to SS on many ways, and be so different that the people that loved SS won't find the same things and hate Omega just because of that... It's natural evolution and effort to stay up to date.
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Yeah, Omega is a sign that Toei realized that while old-style Saint Seiya will never appeal to new fans, regardless of them being kids or not, the universe created by Kurumada still holds some potential.
Because let's face it, an anime based on Next Dimension will only please old hardcore fans of the franchise, especially since Kurumada's narrative didn't evolve at all (and his art actually got worse). And while that fanbase may be still devoted and big enough overseas, it doesn't seem to be the case in Japan.
That said, i think Omega is still way more true to the original than Lost Canvas, in every possible way. Whether a good thing or not, is up to anyone.
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